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Summary: enabling bytecode interpreter makes things far, far worse
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547532
Summary: enabling bytecode interpreter makes things far, far worse Product: Fedora Version: rawhide Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: high Priority: low Component: freetype AssignedTo: besfahbo@redhat.com ReportedBy: mattdm@mattdm.org QAContact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org CC: besfahbo@redhat.com, kevin@tigcc.ticalc.org, fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com Classification: Fedora
It's cool that the patent expiration lets us enable the bytecode interpreter.
However, there's a severe flaw -- if there's no bytecode, apparently freetype doesn't hint at all.
I use Inconsolata as my terminal font, and it normally looks great. After the update, it got all fuzzy and basically unusable. This is sadly true for a great many very nice fonts.